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New comment by throwaway743950 in "Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps (2025)"

throwaway743950 — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 07:02:57 +0000

Maybe I'm uneducated here, but wouldn't this just commoditize the products of companies? Would it disincentivize them from creating their products in the first place?

New comment by throwaway743950 in "Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disaster, report finds"

throwaway743950 — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 20:28:05 +0000

Could weather or some other geographic/similar aspect be a factor?

New comment by throwaway743950 in "Firefox tab groups are here"

throwaway743950 — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 20:13:45 +0000

We get tab groups, but can't get a working gradient without banding. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627771

New comment by throwaway743950 in "Glamorous Toolkit"

throwaway743950 — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 00:21:43 +0000

Glamorous toolkit has always looked interesting to me, but feels a bit unapproachable. It just feels so foreign between smalltalk and a whole sort of philosophy that goes with it.

For those with more experience, is it still relevant? Can the same be accomplished with python and jupyter notebooks?

New comment by throwaway743950 in "Kagi Is Bringing Orion Web Browser to Linux"

throwaway743950 — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 20:11:39 +0000

How long ago was that? I've been seeing consistent progress on bugginess.

New comment by throwaway743950 in "Kagi Is Bringing Orion Web Browser to Linux"

throwaway743950 — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 20:03:01 +0000

Not who you are responding to, but it properly blocks ads. I can actually view things like recipes on mobile. It's great! (Blocks YT ads too.)

New comment by throwaway743950 in "Anthropic raises $3.5B at $61.5B valuation"

throwaway743950 — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 19:31:58 +0000

> when shareholders all suddenly decide they agree

Sorry, what are you saying happens at that point?

New comment by throwaway743950 in "Oklch in CSS: why we moved from RGB and HSL (2024)"

throwaway743950 — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 03:41:34 +0000

There are cases of perceivable differences though like https://oklch.com/#70.29,0.2413,41.29,100 .

New comment by throwaway743950 in "Salesforce will hire no more software engineers in 2025, says Marc Benioff"

throwaway743950 — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 02:59:59 +0000

There may also be engineers working harder because of being worried about getting laid off. How could they separate those productivity increases from AI?

New comment by throwaway743950 in "We all took the DVD boom era for granted"

throwaway743950 — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 04:36:29 +0000

Don't you get the majority of that with buying movies from Apple? You can get 4K and Dolby Atmos. If there's DRM anyway, it seems like the difference isn't worth it.

New comment by throwaway743950 in "Taxpayers spend 22% more per patient to support Medicare Advantage"

throwaway743950 — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 20:13:11 +0000

I agree with the problems. I'm a bit uninformed, but in theory ending privatization isn't the only option, right? Hasn't there been problems with corruption in centralized healthcare as well? It seems like regulation could be an option (though I know that it has its own trade-offs as well).

Also, healthcare isn't the only industry suffering this pain though obviously a very important one.

Also, there's a question of how much of this is a cultural problem. How has this sort of thing been addressed in the past? Is the same solution even possible now with the power imbalance created with the current state of capitalism and technology?

New comment by throwaway743950 in "Just: Just a Command Runner"

throwaway743950 — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 17:52:18 +0000

I recently looked at various alternatives to make and landed on https://taskfile.dev/

It handles dependencies and conditions well without needing to be a full blown bash expert.

New comment by throwaway743950 in "How long til we're all on Ozempic?"

throwaway743950 — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 02:34:13 +0000

"You can't outrun a bad diet."

New comment by throwaway743950 in "How long til we're all on Ozempic?"

throwaway743950 — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 02:28:05 +0000

Maybe it's harder, but I don't think anyone is immune to calorie restriction.

New comment by throwaway743950 in "Super Useful Chrome Plugins for Front-End Developers"

throwaway743950 — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 01:16:43 +0000

It's unfortunate that chrome extensions are major security liabilities.

New comment by throwaway743950 in "Show HN: Inngest 1.0 – Open-source durable workflows on every platform"

throwaway743950 — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 22:32:17 +0000

What are open source alternatives to this? Can temporal.io do the same things?

New comment by throwaway743950 in "Children's daily sugar consumption halved just a year after tax, study finds"

throwaway743950 — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 08:00:33 +0000

Let's not pretend sweeteners are anywhere near as damaging as sugar.

New comment by throwaway743950 in "OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk?"

throwaway743950 — Sat, 18 May 2024 04:29:07 +0000

It might be that they agree to it initially when hired, so it doesn't matter if they sign something when they leave.

New comment by throwaway743950 in "Fault tolerance and resilience patterns for Go"

throwaway743950 — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 17:33:56 +0000

What aspects of BEAM perform poorly? (Genuinely asking. I’m not very familiar with it.)

New comment by throwaway743950 in "Cancer under age 50 increased 80% from 1990 to 2019"

throwaway743950 — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 04:32:35 +0000

Even if we have the collective wisdom, that doesn't mean it will outweigh the incentives, especially if that decision-making power is unchecked.